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#spirit
David Cameron's New Year Message
Cameron's list of British virtues
Resilient. Realistic. Intelligent. Curious. Enterprising. Inventive. Unswerving. It's the spirit that has made our universities among the best in the world, our scientists Nobel prizewinners, our athletes gold medal winners, our culture, our music and our television famous…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Free spirits have contempt for that which is called their "duty"
It may be conjectured that a soul in which the type of "free spirit" can attain maturity and completeness had its decisive and deciding event in the form of a great emancipation or unbinding, and that prior to that event it seemed only the more firmly and forever chained to its…
Luther's reformation and Shopenauer's doctrine are both metaphysical
Luther's reformation shows that in his century all the impulses to freedom of the spirit were still uncertain, lacking in vigor, and immature. Science could not yet rear her head. Indeed the whole Renaissance appears but as an early spring smothered in snow. But even in the…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Kami, uno spirito in ogni cosa
Oltre a non essere affatto distanti dagli uomini, gli dèi intrecciano con loro stretti rapporti. I giapponesi sono prescelti come razza eletta, e ciò alimenterà un lignaggio regale misto, di matrice semidivina, il cui depositario è l’imperatore. Tutto il cosmo è animato…
Yamato kokoro (definizione)
Yamato kokoro. La mentalità e lo spirito giapponese.